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Satay-Inspired Turkey Grilled Cheese with Nutty Masala Sauce

The Nutty Masala Sauce I made for this sandwich was inspired by satay sauce, but has butternut squash puree for a fun twist. It’s amazing on this sandwich, but I’m sure you can think of at least 10 other uses for it off the top of your head (it’s amazing even eaten off a spoon).

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Butternut squash and turkey work together. They rank in the top 37% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry eugenol, which smells clove, spicy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, peanut, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butternut squash + turkeytop 37% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  2. Peanut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Peanut + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together877 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Garlic + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Peanut + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together524 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the butternut squash

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, peanut, butter, honey, rice, garlic, ginger):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Butternut squashthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, peanut, butter, honey, rice, garlic, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).